Biography
Ratajczak was born in Opole, Upper Silesia, Poland. His father, Cyryl, moved from Greater Poland to Opole after finishing Law studies. His mother, Alina Czuchryj arrived from Khodoriv. Dariusz Ratajczak finished Opole high school and enrolled to Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, as Ratajczak noted, because he wanted to make his father happy. From 1988 Ratajczak was working in the Opole higher education institution. Dariusz Ratajczak was a history lecturer at the University of Opole until 1999, when he was dismissed following controversy about his book Dangerous Topics in which he asserted that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were used merely to delouse prisoners. He had published articles in right-wing magazines like Myśl Polska and cooperated with Najwyższy Czas!, a weekly magazine of the political party Real Politics Union, where he wrote articles on history.
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